He's not the one running around in the desert wearing a T-shirt, long pants, long sleeves, helmet, flak jacket,canteen, side arm, automatic weaponn, ammo, etc . . . all while looking for people trying to kill him.
No, no, no. I'm not talking about paralax allowing you to tell that one star is closer than the moon or the earth or something. You couldn't see that in real life either. I'm saying that if there was a screen displaying a star field in real life, you could move your head and you'd see a different section of the star field. In order for the illusion to work, the screen would have to be very large and far from the porthole.
Parallax would certainly tell you if the stars were right outside the window.
That doesn't make any sense at all. If they moved their heads they would be able to tell that what they were seeing was immediately outside the window.
If you're a christian church and focusing more on the old testament than the new - and especially the loving and forgiving christ (Jesus), isn't it a fair case to call you a jew instead of a christian?
Fundamentalist Christians do call themselves Jews. "Jews for Jesus" are a very small subset of Christians that call themselves Jews. They believe that the Messianic prophecy in the Jewish faith has been realized by Jesus. When they're born again into Christ, they become Jews. Nevermind that whole no-three-times requirement for converts into Judaism.
They believe that the Old Testament and the New Testament are both completely true and they believe that the New Testament specifically exempt most of the 613 mitzvah. This is why Christians don't keep Kosher, although I've never had this explained to my satisfaction.
Anyway. If God tells you to smite your neighbor, you better hop to it.
No, no paragraph break intended. The thing I don't get about moral rights isn't that they aren't transferable; it's that people think there's some intrinsic right over your authored work. I can see that wasn't clear.
Obviously the latest Stephen King novel is worth lots of money in its first year. I don't really care what the impact of copyright law is on Stephen King novels, so long as he is rather well paid.
Almost all copyrighted material is only valuable to its creator in its first few years. This is why everyone who has paid any attention to the subject (and is neither competing with the public domain nor sitting on millions in IP) advocates eliminating automatic copyright and reducing copyright to a very few years, fewer if the copyright is of no use to the owner (an optional renewal). This is the simplest, easiest, most productive change we could possibly make to our intellectual property system.
And it'll never happen, so whatever.
Saying "copyrights shouldn't be for sale" is a widespread belief which I will never understand. Some nations have "moral rights" for authors that are not transferable. It was inane in kindergarten when one kid would yell at another "you can't draw a pony; it was my idea to draw a pony". Dream that someday people will grow up.
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The unchallegned smart-kid may try to find entertainment in smoking pot, and end up a slacker
Alternatively, they could wind up an entertained smart-kid. "Billions & Billions", dude. Did you believe everything they told you in D.A.R.E.?
If you're a 16-year old slacker who doesn't bother trying, I see no reason to give you special treatment because you're old enough to know better. Grow up, or you're going to be pumping gas when you're 30.
Alternatively, we could have an actual education system that attempts to reach everyone, even if they're a "slacker who doesn't bother trying". Maybe we should work down to 1-strike-and-you're-out mandatory sentencing, too. Quit being an elitist asshole.
Copyright can be bought and sold. So if copyright only lasts until the death of the author, then a 20 year old author's work will be worth more on the market than a 80 year old author's work, because the purchaser will get a monopoly for a longer period of time.
If copyright expired 20 years after publication, what happens if six publishers all bring out editions of Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October?
That's exactly what I'm saying. I do not recognize any moral imperative that Tom Clancy (or anyone else) should still have a monopoly on The Hunt for Red October.
Otherwise you're just saying to the author that everyone bar him/her can now make money off their older work.
You aren't thinking this through. Obviously the author would have the same ability as everyone else to profit off their older work, which, admittedly, is very little.
And wouldn't that make 20-year-old books 10% more profitable to publishers than new ones? After all, they wouldn't have to pay the author.
No, it would make 20 year old books 100% cheaper for customers. Whether that means that publishers would focus on old content, because it was free, or new content, because they'd be the only supplier, is debatable. Dunno. The important part, though, is that the material would also be 100% cheaper for other authors or artists who might be able to create something from it. The main harm caused by copyright is that so much productive activity is effectively illegalized because it is too expensive to acquire rights to all the source material. Some mash-ups (in books, music, movies, and photography) are more culturally valuable than the originals, and too many of them are killed for no reason.
It's already hard enough for a newbie to get published.
So you're concerned that people won't want to read your book because all the old books will be cheap/free and unencumbered. That's a legitimate concern.
Yes, I'm a published author and no, I can't see how any system other than what we have now is going to work better - or even come close.
You say that as if it gives you a better perspective, but that is not evident. You can't imagine a system that would work better for you and your book, which I grant are important and worth preserving. However, the whole of society are not budding SF/Humour authors. The rest of us would be better served by a brief copyright term, well under 20 years. While you may (although I doubt you do) expect to profit from your first Hal Spacejock book for over 20 years, this does not mean that you deserve to.
This article is idiotic and impossible to read if you have the critical thinking skills more sophisticated than that of a turnip.
However (and this is the silliest thing I'll say all week):
Something about CRTs make me uncomfortable. I'll never own a television, and when I have kids I'm not even sure I want them seeing a computer monitor 'till they're three or four. I'm nervous about watching moving pictures my own self. I superstitiously believe somehow that they'll have weird effects on visual cognition in infants.
As a great big dweeb, pasting multimedia into the chat window and having it come across nicely is rad. It is one of my favorite methods for conveyance of stolen music, and funny/apropos pornographic images.
No chat client does that perfectly. Hello is great for pictures. iChat & GAIM & AOLIM are good if you're both running the right client and have the right network topology, which is rare.
Maybe the Skype client gets it right. Dunno. Never used it.
There are lots of kinds of nerves that can be reattached. They sew the nerve sheaths together and hope that the nerves reach out and touch eachother. If it works well, the patient's sensation may be somewhat disordered, but will improve over time. The nerves don't necessarily connect the same way twice, so stimulus in one spot may be felt in another until you remap it in your head.
Dunno how if they can do that for transplants, but it can certainly be done with some severed nerves.
Bram already has cash. Now he needs a revenue stream, which this is not. He's probably hoping that it's a line on a revenue stream, which will be movie distribution in the future.
I really hope that he's going to do ok. He's worked on a number of other projects that didn't work out because of fucked original constraints, so there's no guarantee that his future stuff is going to be as well conceived as bittorrent. And there's no guarantee that he's going to turn out to be good at business.
Google on the guiding hand social club. The heist was fascinating and there have been a number of articles about it, although mostly from the perspective of EVE players.
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I'm down with rewarding rich investors & patend lawyers if they're providing something that would not be accomplished otherwise.
The problem is that they're rewarding people for stuff that would get done even without the reward. And the reward comes off our backs.
Plus, it's patented, so these keyboards will only be available from one (small!) vendor.
That guarantees that it's going nowhere.
No, no, no. I'm not talking about paralax allowing you to tell that one star is closer than the moon or the earth or something. You couldn't see that in real life either. I'm saying that if there was a screen displaying a star field in real life, you could move your head and you'd see a different section of the star field. In order for the illusion to work, the screen would have to be very large and far from the porthole.
Parallax would certainly tell you if the stars were right outside the window.
That doesn't make any sense at all. If they moved their heads they would be able to tell that what they were seeing was immediately outside the window.
Try using printscreen when you're viewing a DRMed file in RealPlayer. You just get a black box. They can sew that shit up EASY.
Any other questions?
The Canon SD30 is a big improvement in shutter times from other Canon cameras. Dunno if it compares well to Sony.
Dunno what I said that makes you think I missed something.
They believe that the Old Testament and the New Testament are both completely true and they believe that the New Testament specifically exempt most of the 613 mitzvah. This is why Christians don't keep Kosher, although I've never had this explained to my satisfaction.
Anyway. If God tells you to smite your neighbor, you better hop to it.
As Abe said, "Where you want this killing done?"
No, no paragraph break intended. The thing I don't get about moral rights isn't that they aren't transferable; it's that people think there's some intrinsic right over your authored work. I can see that wasn't clear.
Obviously the latest Stephen King novel is worth lots of money in its first year. I don't really care what the impact of copyright law is on Stephen King novels, so long as he is rather well paid.
Almost all copyrighted material is only valuable to its creator in its first few years. This is why everyone who has paid any attention to the subject (and is neither competing with the public domain nor sitting on millions in IP) advocates eliminating automatic copyright and reducing copyright to a very few years, fewer if the copyright is of no use to the owner (an optional renewal). This is the simplest, easiest, most productive change we could possibly make to our intellectual property system.
And it'll never happen, so whatever.
Saying "copyrights shouldn't be for sale" is a widespread belief which I will never understand. Some nations have "moral rights" for authors that are not transferable. It was inane in kindergarten when one kid would yell at another "you can't draw a pony; it was my idea to draw a pony". Dream that someday people will grow up.
Copyright can be bought and sold. So if copyright only lasts until the death of the author, then a 20 year old author's work will be worth more on the market than a 80 year old author's work, because the purchaser will get a monopoly for a longer period of time.
Because all of the rights you describe are immediately sold to publishers if they are of any value.
Why should the work of a young author be worth less than the work of an old author?
There is no reason. Oversimplified moral rights are not going to get us the solutions we need.
Brainiac.
This article is idiotic and impossible to read if you have the critical thinking skills more sophisticated than that of a turnip.
However (and this is the silliest thing I'll say all week):
Something about CRTs make me uncomfortable. I'll never own a television, and when I have kids I'm not even sure I want them seeing a computer monitor 'till they're three or four. I'm nervous about watching moving pictures my own self. I superstitiously believe somehow that they'll have weird effects on visual cognition in infants.
As a great big dweeb, pasting multimedia into the chat window and having it come across nicely is rad. It is one of my favorite methods for conveyance of stolen music, and funny/apropos pornographic images.
No chat client does that perfectly. Hello is great for pictures. iChat & GAIM & AOLIM are good if you're both running the right client and have the right network topology, which is rare.
Maybe the Skype client gets it right. Dunno. Never used it.
There are lots of kinds of nerves that can be reattached. They sew the nerve sheaths together and hope that the nerves reach out and touch eachother. If it works well, the patient's sensation may be somewhat disordered, but will improve over time. The nerves don't necessarily connect the same way twice, so stimulus in one spot may be felt in another until you remap it in your head.
Dunno how if they can do that for transplants, but it can certainly be done with some severed nerves.
There are nationalist idiots in all parts of the world.
Bram already has cash. Now he needs a revenue stream, which this is not. He's probably hoping that it's a line on a revenue stream, which will be movie distribution in the future.
I really hope that he's going to do ok. He's worked on a number of other projects that didn't work out because of fucked original constraints, so there's no guarantee that his future stuff is going to be as well conceived as bittorrent. And there's no guarantee that he's going to turn out to be good at business.
The other other question: "Did Microsoft decide to do a worldwide launch partially because that would mean that they couldn't possibly meet demand?"
The other other answer: Maybe.
Google on the guiding hand social club. The heist was fascinating and there have been a number of articles about it, although mostly from the perspective of EVE players.